Monday, January 27, 2020

Gottfried Curio, January 16, 2020, Immigration Costs


Gottfried Curio
Immigration Costs
German Bundestag, January 16, 2020, Plenarprotokoll 19/140, pp. 17468-17470

[Gottfried Curio is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from Berlin. He is a physicist and musician and is the AfD’s Bundestag spokesman for immigration and integration policy. He here presents an AfD motion (Drucksache 16488) calling on the government to publish a general accounting of the costs of immigration in Germany. Hartz-IV is a large-scale unemployment compensation program.]

Right honorable Herr President. Ladies and gentlemen.

A prerequisite for democracy is the complete information of the citizen. The AfD demands the entire cost of the migration policy be comprehensively laid out. Many costs are not at the federal but at the state and local levels and are apportioned to several budgets. What is lacking is a yearly detailing of the open-borders policy’s costs as a transparent, big picture for the taxpayer. If, with the two-figure billion expenditures, the government whistles “From no one will something be taken away on account of the refugees,” then the citizen suspects that precisely that has not occurred. Each euro can be expended only once. Since, who can sponsor the entire, no-nations-orgy? The extorted taxpayer! To whom this government must finally submit a detailed balance sheet.

The welcome party costs, namely: Accommodation  and care, sickness accounts and later pensions, German courses and translators, unsuccessful deportation efforts, only a few, inconceivably expensive deportations, security personnel, police deployments, hundreds of thousands of denial procedures and then the administration of this total chaos. Billions are flung at all of this and so these billions are lacking in other areas. The German public officials union sounds the alarm. The public administration is at an end, kaputt, at system collapse! From building permits right through to the courts – absurd waiting times, no personnel, no equipment! Criminal suspects must be released. The infrastructure crumbles, day-care is lacking, instruction is omitted.  

Those who are productive shall be extorted by the state and will receive nothing in return. Hans Werner Sinn states that the migration policy has already hitherto cost the taxpayer 1,000 billion euros, as does Professor Raffelhüschen.  The Institute for the German Economy and the Institute for Economic Research arrive at a good 50 billion euros per year. The Federal Ministries of the Interior, Education, Families, Environment and Finance must together come up with such a sum. The Market Economy Foundation makes clear that Germany plainly does not profit. “An uncontrolled immigration brings the country not fiscal return but long-term costs”, said Foundation chairman Eilfort. The mass of the the immigrants, ladies and gentlemen, will ultimately receive basic, old age insurance, financed by taxes. That is the reality of an immigration not regulated and taxed, but commanded and tax-financed, ladies and gentlemen.

A functioning social state would before all reduce the poverty of its citizens and lower the burden on the taxpayer. The anti-native ideologies of this government have, however, entirely other priorities: Giant money flows for an absurd energy transformation, the complete care of hundreds of thousands of economic immigrants, the subsidization of other EU states and, soon, all of Africa. We demand the prioritization of the welfare of our citizens instead of what is unjustifiable and, instead of a long-term welcome party for illegality, again the way of right and reason.

37 percent of the Hartz-IV payments go to foreigners who make up only 13 percent of the population. Since 2007, the Hartz-IV payments to foreigners have doubled to 13 billion euros yearly. The Hartz-IV quotient of foreigners is, at 60 percent, seven times higher than that of the entire population.This government compels migration of people by the millions who, without having worked or paid taxes, shall receive the same social benefits as those who must finance those benefits. In that regard, a Princeton University study indicates, on the basis of Danish numbers, that a decrease of social benefits leads to a lower immigration, just as an increase to a higher. So then: Immediately end the forced suction.

What  an absurd situation: The horrendous costs of  unaccompanied minors, of whom over 40 percent are actually adults. In Aachen, daily care for an asylum applicant, 13 euros – a Hartz-IV recipient receives 5 euros. The monthly card in Hamburg for migrants is scarcely 30 euros, for normal seniors over 60 euros. That is nothing other than a policy against one’s own citizens.

In addition to all that are, ja, the required expenditures for 180,000 new day care places, 2,400 additional elementary schools, 15,000 new police positions, 2,000 new magistrates for the wave of asylum applicants and the pensions. BAMF [Federal Office for Migration and Refugees] president Sommer warns: “Many of the refugees are  today in jobs which nevertheless are mostly in the low-wage sector.” Many migrants would later subside into old age poverty. Oh, look! Since it is, ja, good to know that the Bundesbank is pleading that the pension entrance age be further raised to 69 years. Ever more of our pensioners, who have worked a lifetime, therefore subside to a Hartz-IV level in the basic security [Grundsicherung].  All this because this government sets false priorities. Unlimited money for migrants, yet the German employee, having paid in for decades, no longer receives anything decent. That is simply a rip-off. The citizens will no longer permit that.

Health insurance: Already after 15 months, the migrants receive full benefits. The government makes the payments yet that covers one half the costs. Thus, despite a record income in 2019, is produced a deficit of billions. According to one prognosis commissioned by the Bertelsmann Foundation, in 20 years the minus threatens to be almost 50 billion euros. The citizen, we all, must then pay the bill. Truly open-minded. That is theft with notification.

            Matthias W. Birkwald (Linke): Spin! [Meinungsmache]

And almost 8 billion for control of the causes of refugees – money completely flung away. The living standard of Africa will never correspond with that of Europe. Even a hammock here earns more than work there. From the money transference there can yet more can pay for the migration trip here. Zero usefulness, gigantic damage.

Cities and communities are stuck with the costs. For Hamburg and Saxony, the federal subsidy covers only a quarter of the real costs. The localities’ old debts debate shall be glossed over by the total overload of migration costs. And all that, completely without necessity, will be imposed on the citizens. Even the instrument of self-entry shows that, ja, it is not competent. That is a robbery of 50 billion euros per year. Migration researchers tell us that a hundred times more migrants could be cared for near the native region rather than in Europe. The whole humanitarian embroidery is simply nonsense.

We demand: Finally compare the immigrants’ aids and benefits to the expenditures.  We need the particulars of the long-term costs in consideration of the extent of providing for the migrants, of the multiplication of all costs by family stragglers and followers. Yet the state bears the costs. For the challenge, it will take cash in hand. Only it is stupid for the citizen that this hand that there takes the money was previously in his pocket, ladies and gentlemen.

This policy of flooding Germany with migrants, of destroying the social state by over-extension, of driving the state of law to collapse, is one of dangerous, political extremism. The voter must manage. We are out of money. From police and legal training to pensions and health care. Yet the self-deluded, true believers are shattering this state, and thus permit the verification of their friendly faces.

            Matthias W. Birkwald (Linke): This state has a surplus!

We need finally a coherent presentation, and not a preemptive theft from the citizens so as to declare a pseudo-surplus. Nein, I must say to you: If, as at the bakery, each roll requires an order, then no program of billions shall be glossed over. It is time that the federal government took up the order duty! [Bonpflicht]

            Ulli Nissen (SPD): Disgusting!



[Translated by Todd Martin]